Example sentences of "came in for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 2 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 3 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 4 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 5 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |